Picnic Fun!

A few weeks ago Daddy's work had a BIG OL' PICNIC! It was lots of fun. They had horse drawn wagons that took you from your car to the picnic. They also had air brush tatoos (we didn't get one because the line was too long), ballons, music, bingo, remote controled car racing, a mechanical bull (we REALLY didn't go on that one! It was WAY scary), food and lots of circus type treats: fresh kettle corn, corn on the cob, cotton candy and snow cones. We really liked the snow cones and the hot dogs. Aunt Krissy came also to help Mommy and Daddy "wrangle" us.

Iceys are yummy!

We had fun feeding the ducks our Kixs

Art by Michael

I LOVE to draw and paint.



This is a picture of an elephant (in case you couldn't tell).




Coming soon - my latest masterpiece: a lion!


I really like Blue's Clues. I LOVE to go around and find my own clues and put them in my notebook.

A few weeks ago there was a new episode where Blue looks for his new baby brother. The clues that they looked for were: 1-different colors, 2-spots, 3-"Puppy" (the word). A few days later Mommy was cleaning up my desk and found this page in my notebook. I did this from memory - not during the show.

Mommy especially likes my picture of a puppy (which was not on the original show). It is what the 3 clues added up to.

Another Creation by Michael...

Michael, The Master Builder!

"Mommy look! I built a city!"

"Sing us a song, you're the piano girl"

Sometimes after dinner I like to entertain Mommy and Daddy and Michael by playing a little tune on our piano. I'm very good. Do you like my bear backpack? I wear it all the time!

Class of 1996 Reunion!

Mommy had her 10 year high school reunion at the end of July. One day there was a picnic at the park. Lots of Mommy's classmates came and brought their kids. We played on the swings a lot. Mommy also brought our big bubble blower. That was a big hit.

I like to swing with Mommy.

Daddy likes to swing too - look how HIGH he goes!

This is my friend Jacob. He is Auntie Amanda's (Mommy's best friend) little boy.
He is 3 months older than me. He is lots of fun to play with.

Auntie Jenney (Mommy's other best friend) is VERY good at pushing on the swings.

Mommy thinks I look very sweet here.

Reading is Fun!

Mommy and Daddy took us out for yummy mexican food. Afterwards we went to the "libary" to check out some books. I found some Maisy books that Abby and I really like! While we were at the 'libary' there was a puppet show. Abby and I really liked watching the puppet show.


Do you see the little couch we are sitting on? My Papa and Dama gave it to me for my birthday. It folds out to a little bed and has a sleeping bag. It is a very popular spot in the house now.

Dental Health is VERY Important!

I believe that you cannot brush your teeth too much. Therefore I brush mine whenever I can! I like to stand on my stool and brush my teeth in the bathroom. I have lots of teeth now and it is important for a girl to keep them as white and shiney as she can.

So Sleepy!

I was so tired!!! but also very hungry!!! So Mommy gave me a Gogurt (YUM!) and I was eating it while sitting with Mommy and all of a sudden........ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Nana and Dzia Dzia...

We had so much fun with Nana and DziaDzia.
Here are some more fun pictures from our trip!

Rocking in my chair on the back porch.

Silly Nana!! hee hee

Chips are even yummier when you eat them with Dziaj!

Saying Goodbye to Uncle Pat...

Uncle Pat had to go back to his house and we were very sorry to see him go. We stood at the door and yelled and waved 'bye bye' until we couldn't see his car anymore. We can't wait to see him again.

"Bye Bye"

Fun with Godpapa!

One of the best parts of being in South Carolina was that I gots to play with my godpapa, Uncle Pat. He came up from Alabama just to see me! He is lots of fun and Abby and I really likes to play with him.

Bubble Fun!

Abby and I really like to blow bubbles. We spent a lot of time at Nana and DziaDzia's blowing bubbles with our Dora bubble blower. Abby liked to put the blower in her mouth but quickly got the hang of it, even blowing a few bubbles herself.




It was super humid in South Carolina and Abby's hair got REALLY REALLY curly. Mommy thought it was very cute. On the plane ride home the curl all fell out.

Play-doh Ice Cream...YUM!

Nana, Uncle Pat and Mommy took me to an ice cream shop where they have a flavor called "Play-doh." Yes it really was that color yellow...and as you can see it was SUPER GOOD! *arrggguuuuuhhhhhhhggggg* <-for those who don't know that is what drooling looking like on the computer.


Mommy can't look at that last picture with out bursting out laughing.

Cool Chick!

I like to wear Mommy's sunglasses. Michael says I'm a "Cool Chick."

"Michael is Sccccarrrryyyy!"

I got a bunch of dinosaur masks for my birthday and I had a lot of fun running around scaring everybody! *ROOOOAAAARRRRR*
(mommy says look at my dimple in the above picture...isn't it CUTE!)

After I would scare someone I'd pull the mask up and say "It's just Michael!"

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY MICHAEL!!!!

This post is a little late because we have been on vacation. Mommy, Daddy, Abby and I went to South Carolina to visit Nana, DziaDzia and my godpapa Uncle Pat.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MICHAEL BENJAMIN!!!

on July 4, 2003 at 10:56pm you were born!

Nana had lots of fun planning my brithday party. She got lots of stuff from the movie "Cars." I haven't seen it yet but anything that has to do with cars is SUPER COOL!!!! There were lots of people at my party: Mommy, Daddy, Abby, Nana (daddy's mommy), DziaDzia (daddy's daddy), Uncle Patrick (daddy's little brother and my godpapa), and Mark and Nancy (Mark is daddy's cousin). I was the first one into the dining room and in my seat. Everyone had birthday hats but I like my OSU Beaver hat so I didn't take it off. Nana did get me a 'Birthday Boy' ribbon to wear and I really liked that. All was good until everyone started singing 'Happy Birthday' to me...I didn't like that very much...

My cake was super cool. That car came off and if you pull it back on the floor is drives by itself. The cats think it is a little scary...hee hee...
Daddy had to help me blow out my candles because I was a little unhappy that everyone was looking at me.
Then Nana cut me a GIANT piece of cake and gave me some ice cream and then I was a happy boy.
Cake rulz!
I got SO many really cool presents. Mommy and Daddy left 1/2 a big suitcase empty so we would have room to fit all my new stuff and they STILL had to pack an extra box to go home!!!

Thank you Nana and DziaDzia for such a great birthday!

Mommy would like to add that I am growing up WAY too fast and making her cry !
(she tells me they are good tears)

I like cars!

The Cozy Coupe ROCKS!!!

Backyard Fun!

Abby and I LOVE to play outside. Here are some pictures that daddy took of me on our slide. I like to say "Michael great jumper!"